“Digitally, we’ve tried to mimic the album for years,” Drew Christopherson told me in an interview leading up to Poliça’s fifth anniversary. We’d been discussing music discovery, saying that we rarely dove into full LPs anymore because it was so easy to stream the next single. “I think people have now [decided], ‘Why? What’s the…

Molly Kate Kestner, “Prom Queen” Since she moved to L.A. from Minnesota, 21-year-old Molly Kate Kestner has been writing music with the likes of Kelly Clarkson. It shows in “Prom Queen,” a mighty, brooding pop song. For a triple dose of teen girl glamour politics, watch “Prom Queen” next to HALEY’s “Kismet Kill” and Marina and the Diamonds’ “Teen Idle.” Christopher…

Today's top music news stories include Dave Chappelle and John Mayer paying tribute to Charlie Murphy, continuing controversy over Pearl Jam's drummers, and the death of a longtime Johnny Cash sideman.

Alt-J have released a new video for '3WW,' a song off their upcoming album, 'Relaxer.' Additionally, the band have announced a North American tour that comes to the Roy Wilkins Auditorium on Oct. 20, 2017.

Alynda Lee Segarra takes her love of The Ronettes' lust-drenched rock 'n' roll Rosetta Stone one step further and re-creates the trio's iconic 1965 TV performance.

April 13 is National Scrabble Day, but instead of focusing on impressive Scrabble words today, let's focus on words that would never fly on the Scrabble board. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs with made up words do you want to hear?

Earlier this month, singer-songwriter jeremy messersmith released some new music — but with a twist. Instead of releasing recordings, messersmith created a songbook, titled 11 Obscenely Optimistic Songs For Ukulele: A Micro-Folk Record For the 21st Century and Beyond. As the title suggests, the songs are more reminiscent of sing-along nursery rhymes, and are a departure…

Bobby Goldsboro tugged heartstrings all the way to No. 1; Elton John and Paul McCartney had the No. 1 single and album, respectively; Aerosmith got their own holiday in Massachusetts; and soul singer extraordinaire Al Green was born, Today in Music History.

When Prince lovers from around the world descend on Chanhassen next week to attend the four-day Celebration 2017, it will be at least the fourth time that such an event has been held at Paisley Park. Which may come as a surprise for those who were only passively following Prince’s career in his post-Warner Bros.…

Lorde rises to the top this week just ahead of the start of her big summer of festival appearances at Coachella, she'll be on just before Kendrick Lamar headlines Sunday this weekend.